Connecticut western news., 1887-09-14
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS.

DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD
 IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS. Interesting Paragraphs Condensed
 From Many Redundant Columns.
 Jefferson Davis has written letter favor Ing local option in the granting of liquor li- censes.
 Owing to the scarcity of corn caused by the continued drought the farmers in the viz cinity of Hillsboro, H., are feeding wheat to stock. Such thing was never known there before.
 A preliminary organization of the new American party has been made in Pittsburgh. The Rev. A. H. Fischer has begun suit against the trustees of Helveton Reformed Lutheran Church of Oshkosh, Wis, for Sl5,OO0 damages. He has & contract engaging him to preach for ten years, but has been forced out becaus, he was not satisfactory to the members at large.
 William G. 4ulenreid, the wealthy Phila- delphia coal operator, has been stricken with apoplexy.
 Secretary Whitney says Admiral Luce will undoubtedly be retained in command of the North Atlantic Squadron, although the matter has not yet been officially considered.
 Emperor Francis Joseph has conferred upon NJ. Pasteur the decoration of the Order of the Iron Crown, with the title of Baron.
 While ascending flight of stairs in tho hotel at Hurricane, Putnam county, W. Va the Rev. William Fully slipped and fell. and which he had in his left coat pocket. The bull let entered his body near the heart, and he died within a few minutes.
 The Milk Producers Union of the North west propose to form . ''Milk Trust" with capital of Sl00, 1000, to monopolize the milk business of Chicago.
 A League of Personal Safety" is being organized in the Western States to conteract the rapid spread of Prohibition sentiment.
 The family of Horace Scales of Lee N H., recently removed to Cambridge, Mass, to rs- side. They took with them a cat, which soon disappeared. This cat was found at the old homestead in Lee the other day. How it got back from Cambridge is puzzling the former neighbors of Mir Scales, as the animal must have travelled about fifty miles without a guide.
 -Beriben's party of filibusters have arrived safely in Cuba. They were joined by 400 men near Caribion.
 granting of : subsidy of f45, 900 yearly to the Canadian Pacific Railway for carrying the mais to and from the East.
 Detectives of the Baltimore and Ohio cap tured in the old John Brown fort, at Harper's Ferry, John Wallace, Charles Brooks and Al
 
 who have for several months past been robbing freight and express trains on the Baltimore and Ohio road. The thieves used the old fort as headquarters, storing therein their plumber and sleeping there at times.
 aTle will of the late George E. Downes, of Canton, Mass, provides for bequests of various charities and public institutions of SS,OOO.
 Sir John Macdonald has written letters to prominent Conservatives in Manitoba threat ening that if the province continues its oppo- sition to Federal will he will certainly go to the extreme limit and send in troops to quell those whom he calls rebels.
 Twelve hundred sheep have been drowned by waterspout on Careless Creek, in Mon- tana.
 Twenty five thousand persons attended the opening of the St. Louis Exposition.
 The largest tug in the world has just been launched at Morse's fhipyard at Bath, Me. It Is 16O feet long and its boilers are 200 horse power. It was built for the Knicker booker Towage Company.
 The French fishing schooner Cordelia has been lost on the Grand Banks with her crew of sixteen men.
 -Heffernan's stables and Wagner's minera water works in Cincinnati were burned. Thir- ty-fCur horses and mules were burned in the former establishment. Loss, $20, 900.
 The skeleton of an Indian, which had been buried at least 900 years, has been unearthed 1t Bridgeport, Conn.
 A fast mail train ran into a passenger train on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, near Alton, Iowa. An infant was killed and . number of persons seriously in- jured.
 The first meeting of the Daughters of Vet erans, Grand Army of the Republic, national body is in session at Akron, O., with about twenty-five delegates present.
 The body of an unknown white woman was found in the woods ten miles from Savan- nah, Ga, with the skull crushed in. A broken gun lay near. The corpse was in an advanced state of decomposition, indicating that the rrime was committed three or four weeks ago. No woman is missing near the scene of the crime.
 "A great storm has occurred along the Labrador coast. The steamship Plover has brought the CT ws of eight wrecked fishing vessels to St. Johns, N. F., and it is probable many others have been lost.
 On Feb. 9, 1889, Guy Smith, while at tempting to stop fight between two men named Bowen and Reid at Salisbury, Pa, fired bis revolver and thought he had killed both men. He fled first to Arkansas and then to Mexico where he has since lived under an as sunaed name and accumulated Q large fortune. After eighteen years he learned that the men were both alive and has returned to his former home.
 A large temperance vote was cast in the local elections in Missouri. So far thirty counties out of IA have declared for prohibit tion-
 A large driving wheel in the Renfrew Ging- ham Mills at North Adams, Mass, burst and one of the fragments fatally injured two work men.
 Col. Jones. who commanded the 2d Ala bama regiment, has shipped to the Governor of Connecticut tho battle flag of the 18th Con- necticut regiment, taken at Plymouth, N. o., on April %, 1884. The flag was captured by nj now Company D, 2d Alabama, and was mis- laid after the war, and only lately discovered. By general consent of the company it is now returned. The flag is in excellent preservation and very handsome.
 An attachment for s3OO, ,OCO has been placed upon the mills and property of the Woonsock- ct Rubber Company in Providence by Thomas John Shipman Green of New York.
 Since the lynching of Coleman, the color ed man, at Flemingsburg, Ky, the blacks have become very much excited. They seem to know who the lynchers were, and have notified several white men to leave.
 HI. A. Burney's coal yard at Milford Mass, was burned; loss, $30,000.
 The insurance companies are about te raise their rates in Montreal, owing to the poor fire service there.
 HI. H. Harris, a telegraph operator at Dal ton, Ga., and Miss Ella Phillips, an operator at Sugar Valley, courted over the wires ant met by agreement at Starke Station, Ga. where they were married under big hickory tree.
 No news is expected from Explorer Stan ley before the end of October. The East St. Louis H., public schools arc all clo-ed, owing to . lack of funds.
 The Georgia Legislature has passed law which gives to the medical college the bodies of all who die in jails and poorhouses. The first body ever dissected in Georgia with tht sanction of the law will be that of Q colored convict named Todd, who was drowned al Smiths Camp, near Madison, while attempt ing D escape.